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Book Review Symposium Introduction: Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies, Godwin Dzah (CUP, 2024). See the details of the book here https://lnkd.in/e-SeRkZk This symposium features four very thoughtful and critical reviews. They address different aspects of the book, provide points of convergence and divergence, and foreshadow future research. In his introduction to the symposium, Godwin provides a summary of his book and notes that: As I argue in the book, a lot has been said or written about sustainable development in international (environmental) law. There are presently quite a number of leading textbooks on this subject, and an even larger number of monographs on the subject. At this point, sustainable development seems to have established itself as a core component of international (environmental) law. Yet, sustainable development continues to elude us. This is especially true for the Global South, and particularly Africa. This is the thrust of my book, as it attempts to answer the question of what might international environmental law look like from the perspective of the Global South. However, that question is too broad to investigate. Therefore, I narrowed down further to address a relatively manageable question within the broader context of international law. It is in this sense that this book emerges as a primer, a first of its kind, and a pioneering legal study on the concept of sustainable development from a non-Western (African) perspective. Using a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL analysis), I argue that history plays a significant role in the deconstruction of the concept as sustainable development is a product of a master Eurocentric history, itself a constant process in the history-making project of international law.
Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Law MSU. Environmental & Climate Change Law Research Consultant.
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